Your Favorite White Boy

I’m all for bit torrents, zshares and all the other ways that fans consume music.  And I have been known to utilize those services to continue getting the latest releases in this challenging economic climate.  But when there are serious releases pending – of which Hov’s Blueprint 3 most definitely qualifies – I will more [...]

One of the most popular parlor games for hip-hop heads these days is to discuss the current state of hip-hop. “Hip Hop is dead” goes the chorus, or “Rap has been dead since 2001.”  Everybody has their own opinion or their own theory on where hip-hop is at.  But no one has really backed it [...]

The Streets Say: 4 Out Of 5
The Smoking Section (4 out of 5)
Summary: “Each member manages to conceive their own shine without overshadowing the next man. The unit proves that lyricism can still move mountains as they hit a couple of bulls eyes for the radio like the delightful debauchery of “The One” and Streetrunner’s [...]

Newcomer Kid Cudi covers the September issue of Complex magazine and in the interview, he talks about “the hell” he’s going through being a recognized artist and having to deal with groupies, labels and the insanity of the record business.  After reading about how difficult hip-hop is on rappers these days, it got me thinking [...]

Wow.  Someone went to a lot of trouble to completely recreate, shot for shot, the video for Wu’s “Da Mystery of Chessboxin’”.  And I mean a lot of effort.    Well, I’m just happy that someone spend a month or so working on an idea that resulted in 3 plus minutes of entertainment for me.  [...]

Note: Here we will use the ancient japanese poetry structure to review the latest mixtape joints to hit the street. Knowledge and insight for your consideration – in a tasty little 5-7-5 format.

League champs make State
Excellent plays, few fumbles
Will they now go pro?
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Trolling over at ThisIs50, I came across this post that I’m sure will have the raposphere atwitter in anticipation:
“We haven’t [seriously] discussed making an album together, ’cause we would have to sit collectively and create each song,” he said. “Unless we was doing something where half of it was his and half of it was [...]